Cipinang prison gets a new chief<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Ministry of Justice installed yesterday a
\nnew chief warden at Cipinang penitentiary in the aftermath of the
\nscandal surrounding the escape of businessman Eddy Tansil this
\nmonth.<\/p>\n
Subari, with a long track record of managing correctional
\nfacilities in Karawang, West Java, and Lubuklinggau, South
\nSumatra, was installed yesterday in a ceremony led by Mohammad C.
\nAlamsyah Boer, the head of the Jakarta office of the Ministry of
\nJustice.<\/p>\n
He replaced Mintardjo, who was removed on May 7, three days
\nafter Tansil walked out of jail 18 years ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n
Mintardjo was not present at the ceremony. He is currently
\nunder police investigation but initial indications are that he
\nwas not directly responsible for the jailbreak. However, 20 of
\nhis staff have been named by police as suspects in the conspiracy
\nto allow Tansil to escape.<\/p>\n
Alamsyah in his speech at the installation ceremony underlined
\nthe two main tasks of wardens: to keep the inmates securely
\nlocked up, and to supervise their rehabilitation process.<\/p>\n
The two tasks, he said, are linked. \"If the penitentiary is
\nnot secure, you cannot rehabilitate the prisoners.\"<\/p>\n
\"Even the tiniest negligence and carelessness can be fatal to
\nthe image of Indonesian justice,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Subari, like Mintardjo, graduated from the Academy of
\nRehabilitation Science in Jakarta in 1969.<\/p>\n
When asked by reporters how he would make sure there was no
\nsecond scandal of this type, he answered that he would first have
\nto talk to his subordinates.<\/p>\n
Tansil was serving a 20-year jail term when he escaped. He was
\nconvicted of corruption in 1994 for embezzling Rp 1.3 trillion
\n($620 million) from state-owned Bank Pembangunan Indonesia
\n(Bapindo). A massive manhunt is now underway, and the authorities
\nhave contacted 119 foreign governments for help following
\nsuggestions that he had already fled the country. (16)<\/p>",
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